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FCC says TV stations must alert viewers about reception problems

Welcome back to your favorite soap opera, “As the Digital Transition Turns.” So what’s in this latest installment? No, not another delay. This time, it’s all about notice. Analog and digital signals may not reach the same area. If that is the case, then television stations must tell their viewers about this problem. Here’s how more »

6.5 million homes still unready for the DTV transition

It seems every day I write about the digital television transition. According to a study by The Nielsen Company, 6.5 million homes are not ready for the digital transition if it happened today. The last time there was a study on this, 7.8 million homes were unprepared. That study was in December of 2008.

The study is about readiness and not about awareness. There is also data on which markets are most and least prepared. Apparently the people of Albuquerque and Santa Fe are the most unready folks in the country with a whopping 12.24% completely unready.